Detailed, in-depth coverage of the US home entertainment market and its globally influential trends. Also includes key US video market data and forecasts on spending, revenue and sales, accompanying critical analyst insights and reports.

Pay TV homes in the Asia-Pacific region rose 5.7 percent to reach 76 percent of all homes in 2017. The number of pay TV homes will continue to rise steadily, from 632 million homes in 2017 to 743 million by the end of 2022.

Major Australian media companies Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media have agreed terms to merge their respective businesses. The new combined entity will operate under the Nine brand name and house assets including: Nine’s free-to-air channels 9, 9Go, 9life and 9Gem; Fairfax’s newspapers The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review; digital businesses such as online streaming service Stan, which is already a joint-venture of the two companies, and Fairfax’s real-estate platform Domain; radio assets held by Fairfax via its majority ownership of Macquarie Media, which owns stations 2GB in Sydney, 3AW in Melbourne and 4BC in Brisbane.

​Hardware (3D BD player and console households) and software (units sold, consumer spend and average consumer price) data on 3D BD by country. 2006-2018. Consumer spend in Euros, US Dollars and local currency.

This report analyses how telecoms operators are positioning video as a core service to maintain their market position and drivie future growth. Covering the 50 leading global operators this report provides case studies and best practices for video success.

Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has added further incentives to its Digital TV Assistance Scheme (DTVAS) to assist Singapore's 400,000 Housing Development Board (HDB) homes' transition from analogue to digital television broadcasting. IMDA will provide a digital television starter kit to HDB public housing homes which do not subscribe to a pay TV service as part of the expanded scheme.

Vodafone has entered the Australian streaming market with the launch of its Vodafone TV device. The Android TV-powered set-top box is the company’s first-ever streaming media device which provides access to popular content and services such as Netflix, Google Play Movies and YouTube. The device also features 4K compatible high definition resolution, Google voice-search functionality, integrated free-to-air TV tuner and Dual-band Wi-Fi receiver. Vodafone TV may be added to an existing contract for A$5 ($3.80) per month over 24 months or purchased outright for A$120 ($91) in-store.

IHS Markit has updated its Australian pay TV data in light of the latest guidance on the performance of market leader Foxtel provided by major shareholder News Corp Australia. Pay TV providers continue to show resilience but growth has plateaued, a sentiment echoed in the Q4 2017 filings by News Corp, which indicate a downward revision in its future outlook for the business. As such, IHS Markit has adjusted its forecasts on the Australian pay TV market accordingly, which now illustrate contrasting fortunes for the two main players – Foxtel’s subscriber base is going down, while Fetch TV’s is on the up.

Australian commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster Seven Network will launch 7plus, its new over-the-top (OTT) digital video streaming service, in November 2017. 7plus will feature exclusive original commissions in addition to live and on demand content.

IHS Markit has updated its Chinese cable reporting methodology in light of on-the-ground research into the country’s naming convention for operators in each of China’s 23 provinces. The update to our Chinese cable data within our TV and Broadband Media Intelligence Services aligns our coverage of the Chinese TV market with the 70+ markets we cover.

CBS is to pay A$201 million ($162 million) in cash to acquire Australian commercial free-to-air broadcaster Network Ten, which is currently trading under administration. The US major agreed to take control of the debt-ridden Ten Network in August. The agreed price was disclosed earlier today by the administrators in a report published in response to legal action by Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch, who made a competing offer to buy Ten. A court hearing on their offer is being held this week. A meeting of creditors to discuss the report was delayed to next week by the action.

Malaysia’s direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay TV monopoly is set to end. Ansa Broadcast plans to launch a new DTH pay TV service in Malaysia, ending a two decade monopoly held by Astro Malaysia Holdings (Astro).

TV remains the most watched screen in Australia but cross-screen viewing behaviour is on the rise according to the first issue of the Australian Video Viewing Report Q1, 2017 published by OzTAM. Each week, 19.9 million Australians or 83.7% of the population watch broadcast TV at home either via free-to-air or pay TV channels. Each person watched an average of 79 hours and 30 minutes per month or 2 hours 29 minutes per day of broadcast TV during Q1 2017.